Health Interests Spend $600 Million to Sway Democrats

[Titanic Sailor]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/aflbcmedobbk;_ylt=AhzaozJW0LkyIBfLMa_guWGs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNpbmM1NW9sBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkxMjIzL3VzX2hlYWx0aF9jYXJlX292ZXJoYXVsBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDNQRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDcmVsYXRlZA--


No corruption here thank you.

And we just got a bill for at least 1.3 trillion minimum.

Can we bring Bush and Cheney back?

God.

 

[Titanic Sailor]

600 million in lobbying. The rich keep getting richer, and the poor and middle class are on their own. Obama just approved a 4.3 million dollar bonus to an AIG exec.........

 

[Annie]

600 million in lobbying. The rich keep getting richer, and the poor and middle class are on their own. Obama just approved a 4.3 million dollar bonus to an AIG exec.........

But, but wasn't he against lobbying? Oh yes, 'hope & change'...

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q8eJT9oEHI[/ame]


Wasn't he for transparency?

...Interested, yes. Informed, less so.

Healthcare has surpassed the economy as the serious news issue in which Americans are the most interested, according to a December Pew Research Center survey.

But "interest" does not necessarily equate with "understanding." The public gives low marks to media coverage of the healthcare issue and says efforts in Congress are becoming more and more difficult to follow.

Fully 69 percent of respondents to the Pew survey agreed with the statement "health reform isn't getting any easier to understand."...